Shums Kassam
Co-Founder And CTO at Hatchways (YC S19)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolShums Kassam is a founder and engineering leader with nine years of experience building and scaling developer-focused products and high-throughput backend systems. As Co-Founder and CTO of Hatchways (YC S19) he is modernizing technical hiring by designing real-world developer assessments that capture both hard and soft skills. Previously he led Kik’s Toronto engineering team, operating services at >1500 RPS and shipping major integrations like Kin, and co-founded BlynkStyle, a consumer mobile startup acquired by Kik. His hands-on background spans Python, GCP/AWS, grpc/Protobuf and mobile and web stacks, with early ML and signal-processing projects in battery state estimation and autism research. Comfortable switching between code, architecture and product, he brings entrepreneurial grit from multiple startups and leadership roles in student and community organizations.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Engineering Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Engineering Science at University of TorontoIB and OSSD, IB and OSSD at St. Robert Catholic High School
Github Skills (21)
redis-server8
passportjs8
inflector7
python6
mongodb5
react5
nodejs5
gmail-api5
e-mail5
javascript4
socket-io4
redis4
css4
amazon-s34
flask4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hatchways/express-starter
Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:4 reviews, 51 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 4 months
hatchways/flask-starter
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:14 PRs, 11 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 3 months
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